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GA.9-10.RHSS.READING STANDARDS FOR LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES (RHSS) GRADE 9-10
READING STANDARDS FOR LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES (RHSS) GRADE 9-10
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
L9-10RHSS10. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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Craft and Structure
L9-10RHSS4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
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SSEF1. Explain why limited productive resources and unlimited wants result in scarcity, opportunity costs, and tradeoffs for individuals, businesses, and governments.
SSEF1.a. Define scarcity as a basic condition that exists when unlimited wants exceed limited productive resources.
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SSEF1.b. Define and give examples of productive resources (i.e. factors of production): natural resources (i.e. land), human resources (i.e. labor and human capital), physical capital and entrepreneurship.
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SSEF1.d. Define opportunity cost as the next best alternative given up when individuals, businesses, and governments confront scarcity by making choices.
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SSEF2. Give examples of how rational decision making entails comparing the marginal benefits and the marginal costs of an action.
SSEF2.b. Explain that rational decisions occur when the marginal benefits of an action equal or exceed the marginal costs.
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SSEF2.c. Explain that people, businesses, and governments respond to positive and negative incentives in predictable ways.
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SSEF3. Explain how specialization and voluntary exchange influence buyers and sellers.
SSEF3.a. Explain how and why individuals and businesses specialize, including division of labor.
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SSEF4. Compare and contrast different economic systems and explain how they answer the three basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.
SSEF4.a. Compare traditional, command, market, and mixed economic systems with regard to private ownership, profit motive, consumer sovereignty, competition, and government regulation.
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SSEMA. Macroeconomics
SSEMA2. Explain the role and functions of the Federal Reserve System.
SSEMA2.a. Explain the roles/functions of money as a medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account/standard of value.
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SSEMA3. Explain how the government uses fiscal policy to promote price stability, full employment, and economic growth.
SSEMA3.b. Explain the effect on the economy of the government’s taxing and spending decisions in promoting price stability, full employment, and economic growth.
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SSEMI. Microeconomics
SSEMI1. Describe how households and businesses are interdependent and interact through flows of goods, services, resources, and money.
SSEMI1.b. Explain the real flow of goods, services, resources, and money between and among households and firms.
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SSEMI2. Explain how the law of demand, the law of supply, and prices work to determine production and distribution in a market economy.
SSEMI2.a. Define the law of supply and the law of demand.
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SSEMI2.b. Distinguish between supply and quantity supplied, and demand and quantity demanded.
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SSEMI2.d. Illustrate on a graph how supply and demand determine equilibrium price and quantity.
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SSEMI3. Explain the organization and role of business and analyze the four types of market structures in the U.S. economy.
SSEMI3.a. Compare and contrast three forms of business organization—sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation with regards to number of owners, liability, lifespan, decision-making, and taxation.
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SSEPF. Personal Finance
SSEPF2. Explain that banks and other financial institutions are businesses that channel funds from savers to investors.
SSEPF2.a. Compare services offered by different financial institutions, including banks, credit unions, payday lenders, and title pawn lenders.
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SSEPF2.c. Give examples of the direct relationship between risk and return.
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SSEPF2.d. Evaluate the risk and return of a variety of savings and investment options, including: savings accounts, certificates of deposit, retirement accounts, stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
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SSEPF3. Explain how changes in taxation can have an impact on an individual’s spending and saving choices.
SSEPF3.a. Define progressive, regressive, and proportional taxes.
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SSEPF3.c. Explain the impact of property taxes on individuals and communities.
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GA.USH.United States History
United States History
SSUSH10. Identify legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction.
SSUSH10.a. Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Congressional Reconstruction, including the significance of Lincoln’s assassination and Johnson’s impeachment.
SSUSH10.b. Investigate the efforts of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen’s Bureau) to support poor whites, former slaves, and American Indians.
SSUSH11.c. Examine the influence of key inventions on U.S. infrastructure, including but not limited to the telegraph, telephone, and electric light bulb.
SSUSH14. Explain America’s evolving relationship with the world at the turn of the twentieth century.
SSUSH14.a. Describe how the Spanish-American War, war in the Philippines, and territorial expansion led to the debate over American imperialism.
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SSUSH14.b. Examine U.S. involvement in Latin America, as reflected by the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and the creation of the Panama Canal.
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SSUSH15. Analyze the origins and impact of U.S. involvement in World War I.
SSUSH15.a. Describe the movement from U.S. neutrality to engagement in World War I, including unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram.
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SSUSH15.b. Explain the domestic impact of World War I, including the origins of the Great Migration, the Espionage Act, and socialist Eugene Debs.
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SSUSH15.c. Explain Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the debate over U.S. entry into the League of Nations.
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SSUSH16. Investigate how political, economic, and cultural developments after WW I led to a shared national identity.
SSUSH16.b. Describe the effects of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments.
SSUSH17. Analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.
SSUSH17.a. Describe the causes, including overproduction, underconsumption, and stock market speculation that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
SSUSH19. Examine the origins, major developments, and the domestic impact of World War II, including the growth of the federal government.
SSUSH19.a. Investigate the origins of U.S. involvement in the war including Lend-lease and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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SSUSH19.b. Examine the Pacific Theater including the difficulties the U.S. faced in delivering weapons, food, and medical supplies to troops, the Battle of Midway, Manhattan Project and the dropping of the atomic bombs.
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SSUSH19.c. Examine the European Theater including difficulties the U.S. faced in delivering weapons, food, and medical supplies to troops, D-Day, and the Fall of Berlin.
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SSUSH20. Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
SSUSH20.a. Analyze the international policies and actions developed as a response to the Cold War including containment, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the Korean War.
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SSUSH21. Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations
SSUSH21.a. Analyze the international policies and actions taken as a response to the Cold War including U.S. involvement in Cuba and the escalation of the war in Vietnam as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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SSUSH21.b. Connect major domestic issues to their social effects including the passage of civil rights legislation and Johnson’s Great Society, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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SSUSH21.c. Describe the impact of television on American culture including the presidential debates (Kennedy/Nixon, 1960), news coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, the moon landing, and the war in Vietnam.
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SSUSH21.d. Investigate the growth, influence, and tactics of civil rights groups, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Letter from Birmingham Jail, the I Have a Dream Speech, and Cesar Chavez.
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SSUSH21.e. Describe the social and political turmoil of 1968 including the reactions to assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, the Tet Offensive, and the presidential election.
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SSUSH23. Assess the political, economic, and technological changes during the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations.
SSUSH23.a. Analyze challenges faced by recent presidents including the collapse of the Soviet Union, Clinton’s impeachment, the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the war against terrorism.
SSUSH3. Analyze the causes of the American Revolution.
SSUSH3.a. Explain how the French and Indian War and the 1763 Treaty of Paris laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.
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SSUSH3.b. Explain colonial response to the Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act, and the Intolerable Acts as seen in the Sons and Daughters of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence.
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SSUSH6. Analyze the challenges faced by the first five presidents and how they responded.
SSUSH6.e. Explain James Monroe’s presidency in relation to the Monroe Doctrine.
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SSUSH7. Investigate political, economic, and social developments during the Age of Jackson.
SSUSH7.b. Explain how the North, South, and West were linked through industrial and economic expansion including Henry Clay and the American System.
SSWG5.c. Analyze the economic, political and environmental impacts associated with industrialization and natural resource management around the world (e.g., fracking, strip mining, building of dams and reservoirs, deforestation, sustainable development, and renewa
SSWG1. Explain why physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, climate, and natural resources act as contributing factors to world settlement patterns.
SSWG1.a. Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of North America. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Mississippi River System, the Appalachian and Rocky Mountain
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SSWG1.b. Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of Central and South America. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Andes Mountains, Amazon Basin, Atacama Desert, a
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SSWG1.d. Identify and describe climates and locations of major physical features of Africa. Explain how these physical characteristics impact settlement patterns including, but not limited to, the Nile River Valley, the Sahara, the Kalahari Desert, the Sahel, and
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SSWG1.h. Describe the spatial distribution of natural resources, including, but not limited to, fuel and energy, agricultural, and mineral sources. Predict how distribution of natural resources continues to impact global settlement patterns.
SSWG3. Evaluate how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the earth’s surface.
SSWG3.a. Explain why political boundaries are created and why they change (e.g., nation, state vs. nation-state; political vs. ethnic sovereignty; the unrecognized states of Palestine, Kosovo, and Taiwan).
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SSWG3.d. Explain how political, economic, and social networks and organizations of global power influence places, countries, and regions (e.g., United Nations, NAFTA, African Union, the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, 1961 Antarctica Tr
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SSWH1. Analyze the origins, structures, and interactions of societies in the ancient world from 3500 BCE/BC to 500 BCE/BC.
SSWH1.a. Compare and contrast Mesopotamian and Egyptian societies, include: religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology.
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SSWH1.b. Describe the societies of India and China, include: religion, culture, economics, politics, and technology.
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SSWH1.c. Explain the development of monotheism, include: the concepts developed by the ancient Hebrews.
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SSWH1.e. Explain the rise of the Olmecs.
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SSWH10. Analyze the causes and effects of exploration and expansion into the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
SSWH10.a. Explain the roles of explorers and conquistadors.
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SSWH16. Analyze the rise of nationalism and worldwide imperialism.
SSWH16.a. Compare and contrast the rise of the nation state in Germany under Otto von Bismarck and Japan during the Meiji Restoration.
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SSWH17. Demonstrate an understanding of long-term causes of World War I and its global impact.
SSWH17.a. Identify causes of the war, include: nationalism, entangling alliances, militarism, and imperialism.
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SSWH17.b. Describe conditions on the war front for soldiers, include: new technology and war tactics.
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SSWH17.c. Explain the major decisions made in the Versailles Treaty, include: German reparations and the mandate system that replaced Ottoman control.
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SSWH17.d. Analyze the destabilization of Europe in the collapse of the great empires.
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SSWH18. Examine the major political and economic factors that shaped world societies between World War I and World War II.
SSWH18.a. Determine the causes and results of the Russian Revolution from the rise of the Bolsheviks under Lenin to Stalin’s first Five Year Plan.
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SSWH19. Demonstrate an understanding of the global political, economic, and social impact of World War II.
SSWH19.a. Describe the major conflicts and outcomes, include: North African, Pacific, and European theatres.
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SSWH19.c. Analyze the impact of the military and diplomatic negotiations between the leaders of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
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SSWH19.d. Explain Post-World War II policies and plans for economic recovery, include: the Marshall Plan for Europe, MacArthur’s plan for Japan, and the formation of the United Nations, NATO, and the Warsaw Pact.
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SSWH2. Identify the major achievements of Chinese and Indian societies to 500 CE/AD.
SSWH2.b. Describe the development of Chinese civilization under Zhou, Qin, and Han.
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SSWH2.d. Explain how geography contributed to the movement of people and ideas, include: Silk Roads and Indian Ocean Trade.
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SSWH21. Examine change and continuity in the world since the 1960s.
SSWH21.c. Analyze terrorism as a form of warfare in the contemporary world.
SSWH22. Analyze globalization in the contemporary world.
SSWH22.a. Describe the cultural and intellectual integration of countries into the world economy through the development of television, satellites, and computers.
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SSWH22.b. Analyze global economic and political connections; include multinational corporations, the United Nations, OPEC, and the World Trade Organization.
SSWH3. Examine the political, philosophical, and cultural interaction of Classical Mediterranean societies from 700 BCE/BC to 400 CE/AD.
SSWH3.a. Compare the origins and structure of the Greek polis, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire.
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SSWH3.b. Identify the ideas and impact of important individuals, include: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Augustus Caesar.
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SSWH3.c. Analyze the impact of Greek and Roman culture, politics, and technology.
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SSWH3.d. Describe polytheism in the Greek and Roman world.
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SSWH3.e. Explain the origins and diffusion of Christianity in the Roman world.
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SSWH4. Analyze impact of the Byzantine and Mongol empires.
SSWH4.a. Describe the relationship between the Roman and Byzantine Empires, include: the importance of Justinian and Empress Theodora.
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SSWH8. Describe the diverse characteristics of societies in Central and South America.
SSWH8.a. Explain the rise and fall of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca Empires.
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